poukai t1_iszcy59 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 8:20 PM

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Especially Melbourne-Sydney is insanely busy with almost 9.2 million each, it's almost the same as LAX-SFO, JFK-LAX and LGA-ORD combined (10.6 million). Melbourne-Brisbane (3.5 mill) and Sydney-Brisbane (4.8 mill) is also pretty packed too. source (pre pandemic numbers)

A Melbourne-Canberra-Sydney-Brisbane high speed train would have been great. But I don't think the Australian government is going to do yet another feasibility study on that.

laxativefx t1_it1cwo0 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:49 AM

> A Melbourne-Canberra-Sydney-Brisbane high speed train would have been great. But I don’t think the Australian government is going to do yet another feasibility study on that.

No, but the NSW government has announced a thing… not sure if it’s a plan, a study, a plan to plan.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/projects/a-fast-rail-future-for-nsw

At the federal level, labor made commitments to fast rail including $500m to the Sydney to Newcastle route… of course this hasn’t been put through the budget process yet etc just an election pledge.

https://www.alp.org.au/policies/fast-rail-between-sydney-and-the-hunter

poukai t1_it4yvz8 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 11:41 PM

Thank you for that link, I was completely unaware of that and it was pretty interesting to read. $500m isn't going to amount to much, but atleast they can get some of the planing going.